Great news. For me, I mean. For months I’ve felt stymied because I can’t cast call-in votes for American Idol. Living here on Mars, I have to content myself with two-day-late broadcasts and the recaps on Television Without Pity. But now I have another contest to salve me. I can vote for my top five public intellectuals from the 100 chosen by Foreign Policy magazine.
Ooh, will it be Shirin Ebadi and Anne Applebaum? Larry Lessig? Christopher Hitchens? Vaclav Havel? I’d love to hold the contest in front of the Idol judges. Simon Cowell could tell Bob Kagan his neocon lyrics sound out of date, and sneer to Yusuf al-Qaradawi that everything about his performance is appalling. Paula would tell Ayaan Hirsi Ali how lovely she looks (especially with that fire raging in her eyes). And Randy Jackson could stand up and shout, “Mario Vargas Llosa, that was the bomb!”
I need a life.
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Ken // April 23, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Paula would stutter and stammer and repeat whatever Randy said but in a more longwinded way. Only once in all the AI series was Paula the first to respond and was forced to come up with her own original thoughts. She didn’t know what to say, so she spoke for about 2 minutes and said absolutely nothing of interest.
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